A circa 1930's hand colored etching of a "deco era" girl lying on a devn and holding a long cigarette holder by German artist Korl Meyer, signed in pencil, sticker affixed verso giving title and indicating a limited edition, published in Vienna Austria, size: 8 1/2 in. x 10 in. sight, good condition. Karl Meyer was born in Ribnitz Germany in 1902. Only known as Korl in his environment, he grew up with eleven siblings in modest circumstances. After attending the Ribnitz city school from 1907 to 1915, he began painting in his spare time after the First World War. He used the money earned in the summer season for his training as a painter. In the winter semesters from 1921 to 1924 he was with Hans Hofmann in Munich at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts. In the winter semester of 1924/25 he applied to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and became a student of Otto Hettner. After a leave of absence for the 1925 semester, he was an individual student of Hettner and later switched to Ludwig von Hofmann and became his individual student during the 1928/29 semester. Financial difficulties led to interruptions in his studies and finally to expulsion from the academy in the summer of 1930. In 1931, he returned to Ribnitz. In 1934 he asked to return to the academy. Although actually too old, he came back to Dresden on the recommendation of Rector Richard Müller , now as an individual student of Friedrich Krampf (1887–1943). As a master student at Krampf, he left Dresden again in 1936. His work received several awards during his studies, around 1926 and 1927, with an honorary certificate and in 1935 with a prize from the Torniamenti Foundation. After his time in Dresden, Korl resided in Ribnitz again, and was part of the environment of the painters of the Ahrenshoop artists' colony . His works were predominantly landscapes and cityscapes, portraits and still lifes. He also recorded the destruction of Rostock in 1942. Meyer's oeuvre is known only in fragments. Works by him are in the Rostock Cultural History Museum , in the German Amber Museum Ribnitz-Damgarten and in many cases in private ownership. Korl Meyer died from pneumonia on May 23, 1945. (Wikipedia)